Enterprise 2.0

The enterprise Twitter clone, Yammer, has a great business model that exploits the desire for grassroots social computing from employees and preys on the security fears of their employers.
The way it works is simple: any employee can sign up to Yammer for free. If they are the first to use their corporate email domain (e.g. [...]

Not a usual theme for this blog, but thought it might be worth a shot given the types of people reading. Who knows, maybe this blog can be the home to some Enterprise 2.0 deals?!
I’ve been asked if I know anyone interested in buying a majority stake in a growth-stage Enterprise 2.0 company - would [...]

At the Enterprise 2.0 breakfast I held for Hill & Knowlton clients in Toronto last week, someone ask me about tools for capturing ideas from sales people with voting and commenting capabilities. Nothing sprang to mind, but I promised I would do some research.
Seems like a bit of an untapped market to be honest*, but [...]

In Enterprise 2.0, and indeed as early as June last year, I talk about the benefits of internal micro-blogging using enterprise versions of tools like Twitter.
If this is an area of interest to you (and it probably should be), then I strongly recommend you read two posts from Jeremiah Owyang and Neville Hobson.
In List of [...]

Nortel and IDC have just put out a new piece of research looking at the relative connectivity of 2,400 people in 17 countries. They asked questions about both device and application usage to determine four distinct cluster of ‘connectedness’:

Hyperconnected: “Those who have fully embraced the brave new world, with more devices per capita than the [...]

The team behind GroupSwim are asking if collaborative structured databases are an opportunity for business:
We believe this the principle of a collaborative data source is a very powerful extension to the corporate wiki and will enable very effective collaboration among organization and individuals. It harnesses not only the collective knowledge within an organization, but also enables the organization [...]

CMSWire reports on Open Text’s “holistic approach to their Enterprise 2.0 aspirations”.

You only need look at the language to realise that, whilst they may be “setting their goals higher”, they are still squarely aiming at the IT department. According to the article their “exclusive” features include:

Experience Optimization
Workgroup Optimization
Enterprise 2.0 Content Management
Enterprise 2.0 Content Security
Excited yet? [...]